<TITLE>40. Par 266-272</TITLE>L-266 What--what was that, brother? They never had to die. That was just the first handful of calcium, the first potash, and everything started off like that. Isn't it beautiful? But sin come along and marred the picture. Now, is God... What did God permit it to do? Why did He permit it to be like we was talking about awhile ago? He permitted it so that He could prove that He was a Saviour. He done it. He let sickness happen so He could prove that He was a Healer. He let death happen to prove that He was life. See? He let all these bad things happen to prove that He was good, what He was. We'll...

L-267 You talk about singing the redemption story. Why, brother, when Jesus comes, this--this church will stand yonder on the rims of this earth and sing stories of redemption, when Angels will bow their head, not knowing what we're talking about. Why, they never was lost. They don't know what we've went through. We know what it means to be lost and be found. Oh, can we scream His praises? He's not a Saviour to them. They never needed any saving. He wasn't a Healer to them. No. Glory. He isn't--He isn't Life to them, certainly not; they never was dead in sin and trespasses. We were, then made alive. There we are. What will we say with our crowns off, "You're Reverend So-and-so"? Oh, no, no, no, no. All glory to Him. That's it. There you are. Then we'll tell the story how we overcome, we'll understand it better by and by.

L-268 Then there in that then... Then what happened? Did God then just say, "Well, I might as well just simply destroy all My potash and calcium, it's all ruined"? No, no, He knowed it was going to be that way. Now, now, if the Holy Spirit made me what I am, and I eat food and put it back in my body and build up to what I am now, I... Yet, I was made in form. Every picture that God saw before the foundation of the world mature--materializes. See? It come forth out of the woman, as He said it would. The next time it comes forth from God. It come that time by woman; it comes this time by Man. See? Comes that time by a sexual desire; it comes this time by a spoken Word of God? See?
And there, now, can't anything harm me. No, sir. There isn't nothing can harm us. Paul said, "There's neither things present, things come, sickness, death, nothing can separate us from the love of God that's in Christ." There isn't a thing can separate us.

L-270 As I've told a little story. I'm just about five hairs of being baldheaded completely. And I was combing those few here sometime ago, my wife said, "Billy, you're almost baldheaded."
I said, "But I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Where they at?"
I said, "Where was they 'fore I got them? See? Well, ever where they was before I got them..." Now, there was one time, a hundred years ago, these hairs wasn't here at all, but they were out here in the dust. Is that right? Then about fifty years ago, they begin to come on my head. They come from where? Out of the dust. And now they're returning back to where they was. Is that right? They was not, then they were, and now they are not. What is it? What made them what they are? God. There He is. He painted a picture, and that's the way I want him.

L-272 "O Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory?" You may bury me one of these days from here. I don't know. But, brother, I'll not be dead. I tell you that. No, sir. Oh, we shall rise, hallelujah, we shall rise. On that resurrection morning when death's bars are broken, we shall rise, hallelujah, we shall rise. There's nothing can keep me from rising. There ain't enough devils in all hell can keep me from rising. There ain't enough nothing nowhere to keep me from rising. I have the promise of God; I have the Holy Spirit. I got Zoe, God's Eternal Life, resting in here. This old carcass come from there, and God's brood me out of the ground.


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